Everyone here of course hates those. If you don’t care a whole lot about sports car driving experience (if that’s a top consideration, the latest generation Miata you can afford is the answer) this is the budget answer. Quiet and comfortable when you want to be comfortable like on a long interstate drive. Crash safety…

Not convertible enough. 

I assume that Australia has similar laws about crash integrity etc. as other similar countries?

They are similar, but nothing is really the same. A lot of Chinese vehicles seem to be copied from some Western or Japanese one, but not exactly.

Until it doesn’t. 

That’s $15,428.92 in 2020 money. 

I drove a 40+ year old 1962 Lincoln for about ten years. They are unit bodies so really not as isolated as the 1965 Galaxie and descendants. The heavy live rear axle made itself very apparent over speed bump kind of things. Kind of a primitive suspension with A arms and coils in front and leaf springs in back. I…

Being a wagon is kind of interesting. The rest says “douchebag” to me.

Naval jelly is not petroleum jelly. Naval jelly is rust remover. 

I always find the beer consumption must happen simultaneously with the wrenching. I always think of what a friend once said: “You know you’re really working on your car when you have a big piece of oily grit in your eye and your hand is bleeding”.

Is he going to bring the Voyager back with him?

Maybe this is a Trustafarian type with no debt. 

I learned about entasis and Greek column styles in around the sixth grade. Fun fact: the Ionic column is completely different from the other two and goes with a different architecture.

Actually a lot of the Greek columns have a slight bulginess instead of being tapered in a straight line.

Japanese cars were not galvanized yet and rusted away quickly. One or two might survive in some Southwestern desert. Also: don’t crash at any speed. 

A common thing on some cars in the olden days. 

That goes off before you turn.

My 1990 TransSport had a “tail gate not latched” light that didn’t go out. I fixed it with some Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers black electrical tape. That light stayed on behind the tape for fifteen years along with every other bulb in the thing. GM Quality!!!

I can see it being right for a plumbing or construction contractor, where it is going to sit around at the job site most of the time. 

That reminds me that Mustang E or whatever it’s called looks terrible. The not-a-grille is particularly bad.